English Essay Lecturing 
Cal Matters
JUNE 26, 2025
Indeed, many students have taken the bait, if not to write entire essays, then certainly to draft an outline, refine their ideas or clean up their writing before submitting it. The Turnitin similarity score of a student essay in one of Adam Kaiserman’s classes at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita on May 6, 2025.
Edsurge
JUNE 6, 2017
The university has created a way for automated software to give students in large STEM courses feedback on their writing in cases where professors don’t have time to grade hundreds of essays. Senior lecturer Brenda Gunderson teaches a statistics course that will be first to adopt the automated element of M-Write.
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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
For instance, after subscribing to a service called EssaySoft, you can tell its essay generator to write a paper on, say, “symbolism in the great Gatsby” (or whatever you need for class). Oh, and if you don’t like it, just click “re-generate” and get a new bot-written essay. They can just have the essay generator do it.”
Edsurge
APRIL 12, 2018
Lecture + Digital Formative Assessment I recently attended a local conference and the keynote was delivered by Aaron Polansky , superintendent from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass. Within his talk he exclaimed, “Lectures are only terrible if you are a terrible lecturer!”
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Finally, if a teacher isnt an engaging presenter, the lecture is likely even worse on video than in person. Suppose Ella is working on 9th-grade English as a 10-year-old. Performance tasks require students to apply their knowledge, such as through an essay, performance, work of art, exhibition, and so forth.
Faculty Focus
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
In a comparison of student English essays by NS and NNS of French origin, Granger and Tyson (1996) found that NNS were far less likely to use a term such as “instead” in their writing. Ma and Wang (2016) compared essays written in English by British and American students to essays written in English by Cantonese students.
Edsurge
JULY 6, 2023
A New Analysis Dives Into the Research Flipped learning had a big moment during the pandemic, when many professors decided it made a lot of sense to ask students to watch recorded lecture videos on their own, then use class time for active learning. But does this model of instruction actually work?
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